Site Reliability Engineer - First American Financial Corporation

Who We Are

Join a team that puts its People First! Since 1889, First American (NYSE: FAF) has held an unwavering belief in its people. They are passionate about what they do, and we are equally passionate about fostering an environment where all feel welcome, supported, and empowered to be innovative and reach their full potential. Our inclusive, people-first culture has earned our company numerous accolades, including being named to the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list for nine consecutive years. We have also earned awards as a best place to work for women, diversity and LGBTQ+ employees, and have been included on more than 50 regional best places to work lists. First American will always strive to be a great place to work, for all. For more information, please visit www.careers.firstam.com.

What We Do

** Remote Work Welcome** Be part of a transformative team that is shaping the way First American builds and delivers world-class technology products that fuel the real estate industry. We are looking for the best-of-the-best technology experts who will envision, design, build, and deliver innovative solutions that provide exceptional experiences and lasting value to our customers. First American is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer who will play a pivotal role in ensuring the reliability, robustness, and performance of First American mission-critical software systems. An ideal candidate will maintain and monitor the functionalities of our in-house software applications and offer timely support to integration partners as well as end-users. The ideal candidate will exhibit a growth and automation mindset.

What You’ll Do:

• Provide support for in-house built software applications, addressing bugs, errors, and performance issues.

• Address application architecture needs, pushing towards solutions that are fault-tolerant, resilient, and easy to manage.

• Analyze and enhance software functionality, including working with developers and database administrators to design efficient database schemas, stored procedures, and queries.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance system reliability and performance.

• Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes.

• Document and implement incident response processes and procedures to drive consistent mitigation and remediation in case of failure.

• Troubleshoot and resolve issues affecting system availability.

• Identify opportunities for automation and implement runbooks and utilities to streamline tasks.

What You’ll Bring:

• Experience building and supporting software applications.

• Proficiency in scripting languages for automation.

• Familiarity with software development methodologies and version control systems.

• Knowledge of database systems, SQL, and web technologies.

• Familiarity with debugging tools and methodologies.

• Excellent communication skills with a customer-focused approach.

• Experience with observability tooling, application performance monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, and log management.

• Knowledge of cloud platforms and container orchestration.

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze and debug complex software issues.

Ideally, you will also have experience with:

• Cloud Computing Platform: AWS (Lambda, EC2, ECS, EKS, Fargate, RDS, S3, Dynamo DB, SQS)

• Observability: Open Telemetry (OTEL), Grafana, ELK Stack (APM, ElasticSearch, RUM, Synthetics, Uptime) AWS CloudWatch and X-Ray

• Programming/Scripting: C# .NET, PowerShell, Python, YAML, BASH

• Databases: SQL Server

• Code Repos: Azure Repos, GitHub

• Infrastructure as code: Terraform, Ansible

Pay Range: $135,000 - $150,000 Annually

This hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting. Pay is based on a number of factors which may include job-related knowledge, skills, experience, business requirements, and geographic location.

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What We Offer

By choice, we don’t simply accept individuality – we embrace it, we support it, and we thrive on it! Our People First Culture celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion not simply because it’s the right thing to do, but also because it’s the key to our success. We are proud to foster an authentic and inclusive workplace For All. You are free and encouraged to bring your entire, unique self to work. First American is an equal opportunity employer in every sense of the term.

Based on eligibility, First American offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401k, PTO/paid sick leave and other great benefits like an employee stock purchase plan.